[kellyhound]

During an almost two-month trial, Harvey Weinstein was convicted of raping an Italian actor and model after barging into her Beverly Hills hotel room in 2013.

It took the jury 10 days of deliberations before Weinstein was convicted of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration with a foreign object. The victim was not named in the trial.

Weinstein, 70, with multiple health issues including diabetes and spinal stenosis, is currently serving a 23 year sentence in New York, where he was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting other women. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench ruled he cannot serve the two sentences concurrently.

According to Mark Werksman, Weinstein's attorney, Weinstein will be returning to New York to serve out the rest of his sentence. Combined, the 39 year sentence ensures Weinstein will not be eligible for release until at least the 2050s.

The victim, identified only as Jane Doe 1, cried while speaking in court. She asked the judge to mete out the severest punishment possible. She stated that Weinstein's act robbed her of any sense of control in her life, and that she has to endure flashbacks of the assault to present day.

“There is no prison sentence long enough to erase the damage. He deserves to experience the same shame, humiliation and fear as I did,” she said.

Werksman requested Weinstein's sentence be reduced to three years, served concurrently with his New York sentence.

Lench disagreed, ruling that each count represents a distinct crime.

Weinstein maintains his innocence and spoke for the first time since his trial began in October, stating, according to the Associated Press, “I did not rape this woman. I did not see this woman. I wasn’t at the hotel.”

Weinstein stated his accuser, a former actor, could “turn the tears on” and the woman’s allegation was the result of a “cottage industry” of lawyers who have made careers out of suing him.

The one time Hollywood film producer's life began to crumble in 2017, following investigations by the New York Times and the New Yorker that disclosed how Weinstein used his industry power and influence to abuse or rape actresses and models seeking roles in his films.

In total, more than 90 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

Paris Hilton has detailed a troubling encounter with Harvey Weinstein for the first time, which allegedly happened when she was 19.

Hilton alleged that the incident took place at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, where Weinstein approached Hilton after he heard that she wanted to go into acting.

“I was at lunch with my girlfriend and he came up to the table and was like, ‘Oh, you want to be an actress?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I really want to be in a movie,’” Hilton told Glamour UK.

“I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. I was like, ‘Oh my god, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can come up to my room and read scripts,’” she said. “And I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.”

The two reportedly encountered each other again at the amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS research) gala, which Weinstein was hosting. He then allegedly followed her into the ladies’ toilets screaming at her, “Ya wanna be a star?”

“I went into the bathroom and then he followed me,” Hilton recalled. “He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it. And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’ And I just wouldn’t open it. And security came and literally carried him away and he was like [shouting], ‘This is my party,’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”

Hilton hadn’t spoken up about the incident at the time, but she had heard the rumours circulating in Hollywood about Weinstein. “[he] was just someone so powerful in Hollywood who everyone was terrified of,” she continued.

“I didn’t even want to say anything about it because I was like, ‘I don’t want people getting mad at me for saying anything,’ because it was just a known thing. He was just like that and people were like, ‘OK, just turn a blind eye.’”

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[Mr.NoCredit]

Yay! I hope he dies in prison.
Total disgusting pig. Rot in hell you stupid fuck!

[Pyramid_Head]

You love to see it. He'll more than likely die in prison as he should.

[Bastet]

Hahahahaha. Serves him right, that deranged perv. Happy jail life!

[houseoftechno]

His his prison is Wende Correctional Facility just east of Buffalo NY. Cold and overcast most of the year up there. He is assigned to what sounds like nursing home care. Hardly the prison life he deserves, but at least it is not a country club prison in a nice climate.